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Robocop, 1987
English
USA
Profile of Robocop
The mood of Robocop is stylized, cynical, and witty. The plot centers around corporate crimes, superhuman powers, and androids and robots. It features dark humor. Robocop is an action and sci-fi movie. Stylistically, it is futuristic, has a Hollywood tone, and is postmodernist. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. Robocop takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is Detroit. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Robocop is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Robocop
Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own. Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, Robocop was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 17 July 1987 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Officer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop
as Officer Anne Lewis
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
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- by: Walter Goodman
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- 11.September.2010
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